My horse is a star :) (warning a bit gushy ;) ) *pic*

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Went XC schooling on Tuesday (in my free periods :o ) and Cash was a total star.
We haven't been out jumping properly (apart from hacking to a friend's makeshift XC course, and popping the practice jump at events we've tagged along to with friends) since July when he had a bad back (which I didn't realise :( ) caused by an ill fitting saddle. Shortly before I realised his back was bad, we had a totally disasterous SJ outing with two eliminations, one at the first fence. I now know he was obviously trying to tell me he was in pain- i feel awful for not realising sooner :(
Thankfully pain was recitified by physio easily, and new saddle meant no back pain. I was still worried, though, that he'd have negative associations with jumping 'properly' away from home.

I was, thankfully, wrong :D After one initial hesitation, he jumped nearly everything I put him at (some quite big jumps!!) first time with a LOT of enthusiasm, and showed how genuine he is by rectifying my mistakes and helping me out if I saw a silly stride :D He is very forgiving, eager to please and loves to jump!- god i love him :)

A pic :)

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Can't wait to get out to some autumn hunter trials!! :D I've had him a whole summer now, and really feel like we're gelling as a partnership :)
 
SusannaF said:
You both look like you've just had a whale of a time.
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We had :D It was all Dad could do to get us to both stand still for a photo, we both wanted to shoot off and jump some more jumps :D
Brighteyes- didn't think it was too tight (RI normally hauls me up for illfitting tack!!) but can see it does look pretty short in the pic. Will see if i can put some more holes in the martingale bit tonight, thanks.
And yep, straight bar happy mouth for everything :)

Thanks everyone, I think he is gorgeous (but then I'm biased)- totally besotted :D
 
MOLLYA said:
We had :D It was all Dad could do to get us to both stand still for a photo, we both wanted to shoot off and jump some more jumps :D
Brighteyes- didn't think it was too tight (RI normally hauls me up for illfitting tack!!) but can see it does look pretty short in the pic. Will see if i can put some more holes in the martingale bit tonight, thanks.
And yep, straight bar happy mouth for everything :)

Thanks everyone, I think he is gorgeous (but then I'm biased)- totally besotted :D
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Dark bays are my complete weakness, so I am biased for a start. The pic sums up happiness - you look like you have found your lifetime horse on it. Re the tack, it could be the position you are standing in but usually a running martingale allows a little higher head carriage than yours suggests it might, and to be a little snug between his forelegs. That was all. We are lucky (?) all ours have never needed to progress to anything above a snaffle for XC, though I do realise this isn't always possible.
 
brighteyes said:
Dark bays are my complete weakness, so I am biased for a start.
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Lol, he was actually a lot lighter in mid summer (but obviously still gorgeous in my eyes- tbh I think he could be purple and i'd still think he was lush ;) ) so it's been interesting to see him change colour- got him late March this year so haven't seen his full winter coat before.
Summer:
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brighteyes said:
The pic sums up happiness - you look like you have found your lifetime horse on it.
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Thanks, that's a really lovely thing to say :o

brighteyes said:
Re the tack, it could be the position you are standing in but usually a running martingale allows a little higher head carriage than yours suggests it might, and to be a little snug between his forelegs. That was all. We are lucky (?) all ours have never needed to progress to anything above a snaffle for XC, though I do realise this isn't always possible.
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Yes, I didn't think it was too short but will play around with lengths today. Probably agree re the between-forelegs-strap, that has more holes so I'll lengthen it.
Haven't had to use anything different bitwise yet (might try a drop noseband just to see if he prefers it)- we have a pairs hunter trial soon though, so I shall see then whether my brakes are reliable!! :D
 
You are a fairly new team - try working on the voice commands to get him to slow down. Mine will come back from a gallop to a 'whoa' from me. He looks intelligent enough to cotton on then you won't need more than the cavesson. Schooling is the key to obedience (that and time) and he sounds well worth the effort. Lovely horse.
 
brighteyes said:
You are a fairly new team - try working on the voice commands to get him to slow down. Mine will come back from a gallop to a 'whoa' from me. He looks intelligent enough to cotton on then you won't need more than the cavesson. Schooling is the key to obedience (that and time) and he sounds well worth the effort. Lovely horse.
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I'd love Cash to be able to do that- he is an ex-racer so tends to be a tiny bit hard to stop once his adrenalin is pumping (not seriously strong though). He has already started to listen to my voice when jumping, if I call 'steady' coming into a fence, more often than not he'll check his speed and come back to me a bit more :) He is certainly intelligent, and the fact that he loves to learn and to please makes him a pleasure to teach :) Since getting him, I've been enjoying dressage for the first time ever!! :D
 
Lol, great minds and all that, clipclopclop, it's in the process of going up on my wall of fame ( a lot grander than it sounds, mainly pics of me and various horses throwing ourselves over XC jumps with horrific expressions on our faces ;) ).
And as my birthday was not long ago, i put a little copy of it in with my thank you letters as the relatives normally want to know how me and the nags are getting on :)
His more more more face matches mine ;)

Thanks CalllyH, mine too! I previously had a fairly spindly little TB, and much prefer the chunkier TBs now!!

Expect a deluge of photos over the next month or two, 3 hunter trials on the horizon!! :D
 
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